Effect of Cognitive Empathy Training on Dementia Caregivers

Description

The goal of this project is to investigate the effect of cognitive empathy training on mental health, inflammation, and immune function in caregivers of people living with dementia (PLWD), and to examine the underlying psychological and neurobiological mechanisms. The primary aim is to establish the effectiveness of cognitive empathy training in improving caregiver mental health and immune function, and in decreasing caregiver inflammation The secondary aim is to investigate the psychological and neurobiological mechanism by which cognitive empathy training improves caregiver well-being

Conditions

Caregivers of People Living With Dementia, Dementia

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Study overview

The goal of this project is to investigate the effect of cognitive empathy training on mental health, inflammation, and immune function in caregivers of people living with dementia (PLWD), and to examine the underlying psychological and neurobiological mechanisms. The primary aim is to establish the effectiveness of cognitive empathy training in improving caregiver mental health and immune function, and in decreasing caregiver inflammation The secondary aim is to investigate the psychological and neurobiological mechanism by which cognitive empathy training improves caregiver well-being

Effect of Cognitive Empathy Training on Dementia Caregivers

Effect of Cognitive Empathy Training on Dementia Caregivers

Condition
Caregivers of People Living With Dementia
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Atlanta

Alter, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30302

Atlanta

Emory Integrated Memory Care, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30329

Atlanta

NIA Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30329

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Caregivers must live with their care recipient
  • * Caregivers must have a Zarit Burden Scale score of 19 or higher
  • * Caregivers must have no plans to move their care recipient to an institutional setting within the next year
  • * Caregivers must be able to read and write English
  • * Care recipient not in hospice
  • * Access to a mobile phone that can take and email photographs
  • * Subjects with a history of seizures or other neurological disorders, alcoholism, or any other substance abuse
  • * Subjects with a history of psychiatric illness (excluding depression and anxiety disorders) will also be excluded
  • * Subjects with a history of head trauma based on Survey
  • * Subjects with MRI contra-indications

Ages Eligible for Study

50 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Emory University,

James Rilling, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Emory College of Arts & Sciences

Kenneth Hepburn, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Emory School of Nursing

Study Record Dates

2028-11